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(Eagle News)–Net satisfaction with the administration’s war against illegal drugs remains at “excellent,” based on a recent Social Weather Stations survey. The SWS survey conducted from June 22 to 26 found that 82% of adult Filipinos were satisfied , 6%, undecided and 12% dissatisfied, giving a net satisfaction rating of +70. The net satisfaction rating ties the excellent+70 recorded in March. Net satisfaction with the campaign has always been either very good or excellent in the past 11 […]
(Eagle News)–There have been fewer witness reports of irregularities in the 2019 elections, results of a recent Social Weather Stations survey showed. According to the Second Quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey conducted from June 22 to 26, compared to June 2016, the proportion of those who personally witnessed vote-buying fell from 19% to 10%. The SWS said those who read or heard this from reliable sources on the other hand fell from 23% to 15%. […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Sept. 8, said the “uptick” in joblessness rate based on recent Social Weather Stations results was merely “seasonal.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo noted that data gathering for the survey which pegged the rate at 20.7 percent from the 19.7 percent in March was conducted “when students just recently graduated from their universities or colleges and started looking for employment.” Panelo noted that despite the increase, Filipinos believe […]
(Eagle News)–Four out of five Filipinos are satisfied with the conduct of the May 2019 elections, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The second quarter 2019 survey conducted from June 22 to 26 found 80% satisfied, 7% undecided, and 12% dissatisfied. This gives a net satisfaction rating of +68, classified by SWS as very good, 5 points below the record-high excellent +73 in June 2016, the pollster said. The SWS survey also found that […]
(Eagle News)–Fifty-nine percent of Filipinos agree they can say anything they want, openly and without fear, even if it is against the administration, a Social Weather Stations survey found. The survey, conducted from June 22 to 26, found only 18 percent do not believe they can do this, while 23 percent are undecided. The SWS said this gives a net agreement score of +41, classified by SWS as very strong and 18 points above the […]
(Eagle News)–The number of Filipinos who said their lives improved in the last 12 months remains “very high,” a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, based on its June 22 to 26 survey, 36% of adult Filipinos said their lives improved, while 22% said their lives worsened in that period. This translates to a net gainers score of +13. The pollster said this was the third consecutive quarter the number of […]
(Eagle News)–Forty-five percent of families consider themselves as poor, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS said this was up by 7 percentage points from the record-low 38%, or an estimated 9.5 million families in March 2019. The pollster said rise in the proportion of Self-Rated Poor families comes after a 14-point decline over the previous three quarters. According to the SWS, the June 2019 survey also found that 35 percent of families, […]
(Eagle News)–Thirty-eight percent of Filipinos believe their lives improved in the last 12 months, a Social Weather Stations survey found. According to the survey conducted from March 28 to 31, this translates to a net gainers score of +17, classified by SWS as very high. “The net gainers score continues to improve for two quarters in a row after dropping to -2 (fair) in September 2018. It went up to +12 (very high) in December 2018 and […]
(Eagle News)–The Duterte administration’s net satisfaction rating rose to a record-high +72, with increases across all geographical areas, in a recent Social Weather Stations survey. The SWS said that the +72 obtained in the survey done from March 28 to 31 translated to 81% of adult Filipinos satisfied, 10% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 9% dissatisfied with the administration’s general performance. Classified as “excellent,” the +72 is 6 points above the very good +66 obtained […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate and the Supreme Court have netted “very good” satisfaction ratings, while the House of Representatives and the Cabinet “good” ones in a recent Social Weather Stations survey. According to the first quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey fielded from March 28 to 31, the 72 percent satisfied with the performance of the Senate, and 10 percent dissatisfied with the same translate to a +62 net satisfaction. The SWS said this was […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, April 25, welcomed the results of the recent Social Weather Stations survey that found that hunger incidence among Filipino families went down in March. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, the drop to “a single-digit 9.5 percent” in the first quarter of 2019 “indicate that the President’s sincere efforts in addressing soaring prices and running a bureaucracy that efficiently delivers basic services to the poor and marginalized are […]
(Eagle News)–Hunger incidence among Filipino families decreased in March, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS survey conducted from March 28 to 31 found that the 9.5% or the estimated 2.3 million families who experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months was one percent lower than the 10.5 percent in December 2018. According to the SWS, this also “marked the second consecutive quarter where there has been a decrease in […]
